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In addition, the competition has been publicised by a press release from the Scotland Office, through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Website and the Independent newspaper and website.
In that case, there is no reason why the quality contract mechanism should not be used. The relevant point that was made earlier was that the quality contract is not for universal application because it is not the universal way to achieve the best possible public transport.
Our advice now is that there is really no practical effect that would be detrimental in any way to the instrument. Can I ask that paragraph 26 of our briefing paper, which sets out the Scottish Executive's explanation of the point that we raised, be produced in full in the record or in our report?
I am sorry that Pauline McNeill is not here, because I would have liked to point out to her that choice does not mean only the right to choose what is commonly agreed to be the best option, whether that means home ownership or anything else.
Have we covered everything that you wanted to put on record? I would like to make one more point about joint working. We talked about the involvement of the voluntary sector at a strategic level.
If a member gets information that a minister has used the answer to the question to make a press release, so what? The member will presumably know that anyway if they look at the Executive website.